Deaths
- 404 – Aelia Eudoxia, Roman wife of Arcadius
- 836 – Saint Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general and monk (b. 762)
- 869 – Ermentrude of Orléans (b. 823)
- 877 – Charles the Bald, Roman emperor (b. 823)
- 1014 – Samuel of Bulgaria, Bulgarian general (b. 958)
- 1101 – Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian (b. 1030)
- 1413 – Dawit I, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1382)
- 1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
- 1641 – Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
- 1644 – Elisabeth of France (b. 1602)
- 1660 – Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)
- 1661 – Guru Har Rai, Pakistani 7th Sikh guru (b. 1630)
- 1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (b. 1652)
- 1739 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (b. 1684)
- 1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
- 1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
- 1829 – Pierre Derbigny, American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
- 1836 – Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter (b. 1770)
- 1873 – Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
- 1883 – Duc Duc, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
- 1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
- 1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
- 1912 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
- 1945 – Leonardo Conti, German nazi leader (b. 1900)
- 1947 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
- 1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
- 1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- 1953 – William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (b. 1875)
- 1959 – Bernard Berenson, American historian (b. 1865)
- 1962 – Tod Browning, American director (b. 1880)
- 1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician (b. 1917)
- 1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1973 – François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
- 1973 – Dick Laan, Dutch author (b. 1894)
- 1973 – Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
- 1974 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)
- 1976 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher (b. 1900)
- 1977 – Danny Greene, American mobster (b. 1933)
- 1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
- 1980 – Hattie Jacques, English actress (b. 1922)
- 1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
- 1981 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 1983 – Terence Cooke, American archbishop (b. 1921)
- 1985 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and composer (b. 1921)
- 1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
- 1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1991 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
- 1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
- 1992 – Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
- 1993 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
- 1995 – Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (b. 1961)
- 1997 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
- 1998 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 1999 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
- 1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler (b. 1937)
- 2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Arne Harris, American director and producer (b. 1934)
- 2002 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
- 2004 – Marvin Santiago. Puerto Rican singer and actor (b. 1947)
- 2006 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch runner (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
- 2006 – Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician (d. 1921)
- 2007 – Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Viet Nguyen, Vietnamese conjoined twin (b. 1981)
- 2007 – Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian jurist (b. 1931)
- 2008 – Peter Cox, Australian politician (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
- 2009 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
- 2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
- 2010 – Piet Wijn, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1929)
- 2011 – Ahmed Jaber al-Qattan, Bahraini protester (b. 1994)
- 2012 – Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian politician, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Antonio Cisneros, Peruvian poet (b. 1942)
- 2012 – John Cleary, Canadian politician (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) (b. 1977)
- 2012 – Raoul De Keyser, Belgian painter (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Gérard Gropaiz, French swimmer (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Albert, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1943)
- 2012 – B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1927)
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“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
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